No matter how favorable its ratings and reviews, the television
broadcast of Things of the Spirit will not permanently
change the popular and pedagogic opinion of Calvin Coolidge. Ultimately,
it is the continuing educational use of Things of the Spirit
on interactive digital video disk (DVD) which will significantly
affect Calvin Coolidge's place in history. This outline is designed
for teachers and students as they compare the issues, attitudes
and values of the Coolidge era with their own. The episodes of
the film are grouped under specific topics relating to the personal
and political life of our 30th President. Random access study
of these topics from the digital video disk of Things of the
Spirit can be supplemented with related print and Web-based
material.

Massachusetts Politics
The Strike
The Road to Normalcy
The Limitations of the Law
The President
Campaign 1924
Tax Cuts
Toleration and Liberalism
Farm Subsidies
I Do Not Choose To Run
Wonder Boy

Social Change:

Campaign 1924
Our First Talking President
Modern Times
Welfare Capitalism
Commanders in Chief

Foreign Policy:

Spreading the American
DreamPart
I -- Foreign PolicyPart
II -- War DebtsPart
III -- The DreamOur Man in Havana

Biography / Historiography:

Prologue
Transition
Weaned on a Pickle
The Needs of Education
Massachusetts Politics
I Thought I Could Swing It
Power and the Glory
Amazing Grace
The Business of America
Photo-Op
Your Son, Calvin Coolidge
I Do Not Choose To Run
Saint Calvin
Wonder Boy
I Know My Work Is Done

Things of the Spirit:

Prologue
Weaned on a Pickle
The Needs of Education
The Limitations of the Law
Your Son, Calvin Coolidge
The Things That Are Unseen

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